{"id":33674,"date":"2020-01-22T08:53:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T13:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=33674"},"modified":"2020-01-22T08:53:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T13:53:46","slug":"new-sheriffs-k-9-makes-courthouse-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=33674","title":{"rendered":"New Sheriff’s K-9 makes courthouse debut"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sheriff Fredda Maddox (right) introduces K-9 Marley, who is partnered with Sgt. Janis Pickell.<\/p><\/div>\n

WEST CHESTER \u2014 Meet K-9 Marley. Chester County Sheriff Fredda Maddox introduced the newest member of the office on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020. Following a training period, the 18-month-old Labrador retriever will replace the recently retired K-9 Melody as the courthouse comfort dog.<\/p>\n

K-9 Marley, who is partnered with Sgt. Janis Pickell, followed the same path to the CCSO as K-9 Melody. He received training at the Seeing Eye in Morristown, N.J., a renowned guide dog facility. Occasionally, dogs do not meet the Seeing Eye\u2019s specific requirements for service and become \u201ccareer change\u201d dogs, frequently finding a productive home in law enforcement or search and rescue.<\/p>\n

Sgt. Paul Bryant Jr., who heads the CCSO K-9 Unit, said he was pleased that K-9 Marley became available days after he called the Seeing Eye center to inquire about availability. He said demand for K-9 Melody\u2019s services more than tripled during her tenure of more than four years at the Chester County Justice Center.<\/p>\n

Pickell, one of K-9 Melody\u2019s handlers, said she expected the transition to full-time K-9 comfort duties would be seamless. \u201cI\u2019ll be continuing my contacts with the Crime Victims\u2019 Center, judges and attorneys,\u201d she said, adding that the goal is to ensure that participants in court proceedings have a productive outlet to defuse tensions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m grateful that my first hire was a lovable K-9,\u201d said Maddox. \u201cI look forward to Marley being a source of comfort for participants in court proceedings for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

K-9 Marley received a warm welcome from the entire office, where employees are also looking forward to watching him in action.\u00a0 In the meantime, their challenge will be to avoid interrupting K-9 Marley\u2019s training regimen. During that period, deputies may need training to resist the natural impulse to pat Marley on the head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WEST CHESTER \u2014 Meet K-9 Marley. Chester County Sheriff Fredda Maddox introduced the newest member of the office on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020. Following a training period, the 18-month-old Labrador retriever will replace the recently retired K-9 Melody as the courthouse comfort dog. K-9 Marley, who is partnered with Sgt. Janis Pickell, followed the same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,6518,6919,11838,4897],"class_list":["post-33674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chester-county","tag-featured","tag-k-9","tag-marley","tag-sheriffs-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33675,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33674\/revisions\/33675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}